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Detect, Remask, Repair: Diffusion Editing for Faithful Summarization of Evolving Contexts

A new diffusion-based framework called DETECT-REMASK-REPAIR updates outdated spans in existing summaries while preserving supported content, offering a localized alternative to full regeneration. The approach, evaluated on the StreamSum benchmark of synthetic event timelines, improves faithfulness in early drafts and reduces repair cost to under half a second for one-step repairs. The framework also serves as a post-hoc correction step that enhances faithfulness for autoregressive summarization systems.

read1 min publishedJun 12, 2026

arXiv:2606.12807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Summaries of real-world events can become outdated as contexts evolve and new information arrives. A common response is to generate a new summary from the updated context, but full regeneration discards the previous draft, can obscure what changed, and may be unnecessary when only a few claims are unsupported. We study localized faithfulness repair: updating outdated spans in an existing summary while preserving supported content. We propose DETECT-REMASK-REPAIR, a diffusion-based framework that identifies, remasks, and repairs outdated regions with masked diffusion language models. To evaluate evolving-context summarization, we introduce StreamSum, a benchmark of synthetic event timelines. Experiments on DialogSum and StreamSum show that localized diffusion repair provides a controllable alternative to full rewriting: faithfulness-steered repair improves early drafts, one-step repair reduces repair cost to under half a second, with the framework enabling faithfulness-speed-preservation tradeoffs across datasets. We also find that the framework can provide a post-hoc correction step that improves faithfulness for autoregressive systems.

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